![]() ![]() ![]() The line joined the northern LSMS line to Toledo at Millbury Junction. From Norwalk, the railroad continued to Toledo alongside the Wheeling & Lake Erie/Nickel Plate/Norfolk & Western to Fremont. From here, the route headed southwest to Oberlin, where it turned westward and continued to Norwalk, passing through the towns of Kipton, Wakeman, and Collins. Ultimately, the line's eastern end lay at the LS&MS track on the west side of Elyria. At its peak in the early twentieth century, the route was a part of NYC's busy Buffalo-Chicago passenger mainline. ![]() The line carried the C&TRR name up until 1868 when it merged with other railroads into the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern system, which later became part of New York Central. The old route from Oberlin to Grafton was abandoned but a short segment from Oberlin going a few miles southeast to where a stone quarry spur branched off was used until the early 1900s before it to became abandoned. After a merger with the Junction Railroad in 1853 which formed the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, a more direct route from Oberlin to Elyria was built utilizing its former Junction Railroad route from Elyria to Cleveland in 1866. ![]() It was first built to Grafton, OH, where it connected with the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, along which the TN&C had trackage rights into Cleveland. The Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad began in 1852 and was among the first passenger rail lines connecting Cleveland and Toledo. ![]()
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